Closed deals in the zone, not the city
We ask for transaction history in the specific barrios a buyer is looking at. "We cover all of Medellín" is not an answer to that question.
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How we vet
Colombia has no real estate licensing board. So we do this ourselves.
Anyone can call themselves a broker here. There is no exam, no registry and no regulator to complain to. That is the single biggest structural risk a foreign buyer faces, and it is the reason this site exists.
Five things we check
CHECK 01
CHECK 02
Actual working English
Not menu English. If a broker cannot explain a promesa clause clearly in English, the buyer is going to sign something they do not understand.
CHECK 03
Comfort with foreign-buyer mechanics
Powers of attorney, apostilles, exchange-market registration and the visa paperwork trail. A broker who has never done a remote closing will learn on your deal.
CHECK 04
Willingness to say no
We test this. A broker who agrees that every property is a good buy is not representing anyone's interest but their own.
CHECK 05
Clean payment behaviour
We track who pays referral fees on time. It is a decent proxy for how they treat everyone else in the transaction.
What we don't claim
We are not a regulator and we cannot guarantee outcomes. Vetting reduces risk; it does not eliminate it. You should still have your own lawyer run the estudio de títulos, and you should still read the promesa before you sign it. If a broker we introduced you to behaves badly, tell us — we will drop them, and we would rather lose a referral partner than a reader's trust.
How we get paid
The broker pays us a referral fee out of their commission when a deal closes. You pay nothing, and the fee does not increase your purchase price — it comes out of the commission the seller side was already paying. If a broker ever suggests otherwise, tell us that too.
For brokers
Want qualified foreign buyers?
We send pre-qualified, briefed buyers who already understand the visa threshold, the closing-cost structure and why there is no MLS. We work strictly as an introducer, never as an agent. If you close, you pay a referral fee. If you don't, you pay nothing.